This game will never change; IT CANNOT CHANGE
[I played this game since 2012 and left around 2017 (but I have been looking at it from time to time) so, while outdated, i don't expect much of this to change]
The core of World of Tanks is fun
But its surrounded by things that make it from annoying to infuriating
15 vs 15 is a cool idea that gives fight a sense of scale and epicness. It also gives a chance of newer players to learn how to play by sticking to a safe place and learn from it, but it usually ends up punishing any type of misplay so hard that it teaches the player to not even try, in turn, making them camp or not take advantage of a good situation
The tier system was an interesting concept from the pre-matchmaking/MMO origins this game has to keep the new players to certain playstyles on lower tiers, while people who already knew more about their tanks could skip this and go straight to higher tiers. The reality is that it created a weird way of smurfing that doesn't even require a new account to do, punishes anyone in a grind by putting them in a match that their tank is unprepared for, divided the community so hard, putting experienced players all over the place depending if they were grinding, playing seriously or chilling, so bad, matches that NEED matchmaking (like tier 10) don't have it.
These two are my biggest complaints, and in any other game, they would be heard and changed, but here, they cannot be changed. The reason is the economy, or more specifically, economies. So many economies to handle, the credits to do any kind of tank management, experience to tamper any kind or change of playstyle any player wants to do, crew experience to make the long time players even better (even if, in theory, the abilities sound cool), experience for experience, free experience, etc. In turn, these systems create the bigger problem of grinding, so much grinding for so many things JUST to play a single game. I already said how players don't have any incentive to try anything; these systems make it worse because you can even go negative in some matches.
Of course there is paid gold and premium time to make all of these easier.
The game is not ashamed of it, since at the end of the day, that's the end goal, not making a fun game (that was just a happy accident).
This game cant change, it only looks as beautiful as it does and sounds as amazing as it does because it asks for so much money or time to keep players in it.
I would advise any player looking at this game to turn back and look at other options, strategy games for the ones who want the slow paced gameplay or free-to-play shooters for the ones who want in some action (really, its easier to get in a real game there than in here).
Maybe, some day, anoTher developer will look at this and make a game that keeps the core that is really fun of this game and discard everY part that make it predatoRy. And even if they don't, even if they charge 500 dollars for skins in their game, or sell limited time stuff for exorbitant prices, or sell that single player game at 100 dollars, they wont be as greedy as Wargaming has been with this game and every single one of their titles.
TLDR
AVOID. THIS. GAME. Look elsewhere
